I was not referring to movement between countries, i gave you 3 examples of race riots.
Well, your frequent recourse to remarks about people coming here and not coming here - and the benefits that they may or may not draw - might seem to give the lie to the former part of your sentence here, but the example of "race riots" that you did indeed give was not supported by any data from you, factual or even merely opinion-based, about why they took place and what their respective relevance might be in present-day UK.
Powell did have a brilliant mind, but one of the reasons that his speech is still rembered, is that people can look back at it and relate to its relevance today.
To say it is "appallingly" wrong, is almost as ignorant as saying it is 100% correct. I would claim neither, but unlike modern politicians, he was not afraid to talk about race issues and to speak about the fears of his constituents.
People look back at that speech from long ago largely because of its controversial nature at the time it was made - a controversiality that has by no means dissipated into oblivion today when considered in an historical context. I do not deny Powell's courage or sincerity in what he said, however misguided and tactless it was; where he fell short of reality and human decency, however, was in his allegations that people coming to UK might give rise to those very things that he claimed to fear, whereas such fear apparently did not apply to the outcome of those British people colonising other countries in past decades and centuries - in other words, those "rivers of blood" seemed to him to risk flowing in one direction only, which has always struck me as a view at best profoundly impractical and at worst execrably bigoted. Of course he cared about his constituents, as any politician of conscience should do - but some of his constituents were those very people that he berated in that dreadful speech, so how would it have felt to them to listen to it?
Modern politicians only give a damn about themselves.
Sadly all too true...
Under the present Government, the word racist is thrown about so often it has almost lost its meaning. This has stifled any sensible debate and have sent many people to the far right in order to have their voice heard.
...then more fool both the government and those who've been persuaded that far-right belligerence and bigotry is somehow superior to and more constructive than what the said government appears to offer (but doesn't)...
The Labour Party has failed the the white working class Englishman, ignored his fears, taxed the crap out of him and will pay for it at the next election.
Speaking as white non-class Scotsman living and working legitimately in England (or at least as legitimately as he could work anywhere as the unique bête noire that is a composer), I do not disagree that the present government has failed many people of the kind that you describe and I most certainly concur that it has "taxed the crap" out of anyone from whom it can possibly get any money whatsoever, but what may happen at the next general election is, I fear, rather more uncertain than you suggest, in that one of the other things that this government has achieved is to ensure that, however poor its own mandate might become, it has at the same time ensured that every other party will have at least as parlous a time of it and, in specific terms, the pensions raiding for which the present UK government is especially notorious is something that they must surely know will never be put right by any future elected party, as they've cannily contrived to ensure that sufficient damage has already been done during their own office to guarantee beyond all doubt that it is wholly beyond anyone else's ability to repair. You have to hand it to them for that, if nothing else; however unseemly a ploy it may be, the plan of "screw the nation badly enough and the opposition will never be capable of unscrewing it" is at least a piece of tactical shrewdness, even if it is distinctly unpalatable. Anyway, since I hope soon to be one of those may Brits that's leaving a ship that's being progressively and methodically sunk by its own government, I hope that it may not end up being my problem (said he, as selfishly as almost every other Brit that's leaving)...
Best,
Alistair
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